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...Political Bureau was reduced to nine members. Still in the top jobs were Gomulka backers Alexander Zawadski, chairman of the Council of State, Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, Security Minister Roman Zambrowski and stouthearted Edward Ochab, who stepped down as First Secretary to make way for Gomulka...
...shop; a frequent visitor was a pale man with a wispy mustache named Adolf Hitler, who wore a trench coat and nervously slapped his boots with a dog whip. A goggle-eyed witness of the spectacular rise of Hitler, Himmler & Co. was the butcher's stocky son, Franz Josef. Catching his son distributing Nazi propaganda one day, Butcher Strauss, a staunch Catholic, gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. Said Franz Josef Strauss, recalling the incident recently: "That was my first experience in politics. I've never been able to get away from politics since...
Last week Franz Josef Strauss. 41. no Nazi but a veteran of Bavarian beer-hall politics in his own right, became West Germany's new Minister of Defense. He got his job from old Konrad Adenauer-but he is a symbol of the kind of Germany that will replace Adenauer's Germany. He is also a symbol of the kind of military thinking that Konrad Adenauer once stood resolutely against...
...check the trouble in his coalition, Chancellor Adenauer last week also decided to drop several ministers, including Defense Minister Theodor Blank, pale, plodding ex-trade-union leader who was under fire for his handling of army recruitment and equipment. Slated for the defense job is Atomic Affairs Minister Franz Josef Strauss, burly Bavarian right-winger who has coveted Blank's job for six years, was leader of the successful fight to cut the West German conscription term from 18 to 12 months. His cur rent goal: tactical atomic weapons for West Germany...
...number of short scenes in his adaptation, and the choppy effect created by the frequent changes is particularly obtrusive in the first of the three acts, which contains several unnecessary scenes and many characters who do not contribute materially to the progress of events. Even the incidental music by Josef Marais, while attractive in itself, cannot bridge all the gaps...